Following recent cyber attacks on French blood banks and European supermarkets, U.S. federal agencies are urging critical infrastructure organizations to immediately secure industrial refrigeration systems against remote tampering and temperature manipulation. Key takeawaysCybercriminals are actively targeting unpatched flaws, misconfigurations, and weak or hard-coded passwords in commercial cold-chain and refrigeration controllers globally.
U.S. urges critical infrastructure orgs to secure refrigeration systems ASAP after EU supermarket and blood bank attacks
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